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Marine parks
The Australian, state and territory governments have established 58 marine parks around the country covering 3.3 million square kilometres to provide the marine ecosystem with some protection from human activities. These 58 marine parks are divided into 5 marine park networks and the Coral Sea (See image below). Each marine park network has a management plan.
Adapted from Australian Marine Parks
The management plans for each marine park…
ExplainerGeographyYear 8Marine parks stakeholder cards
Print one copy and cut into individual cards and distribute one card to each group.
TOURISTS
CONSERVATIONISTS
COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN
SHIPPING COMPANIES
Linked activities:…
InformationGeographyYear 8Perspectives on marine parks
Refer to table 1 in Marine parks – Explainer.
Part 1: In your groups:
Describe how the members of your stakeholder group would engage with the marine parks in the North-west Network.
Discuss how the creation of a marine park would affect your stakeholder group’s use of the marine area. You should consider how the marine park would:
benefit the stakeholder group’s use of the marine park area
cause problems for the stakeholder group’s…
InstructionsGeographyYear 8Perspectives on marine parks
Recording table
Stakeholders
Perceived benefits of the marine park
Perceived problems of the marine park
Overall view on marine parks
Tourists
Conservationists
Commercial fishermen
Shipping companies…
WorksheetGeographyYear 8Noosa toursim levy
Use an online map to identify geographical attractions of the Noosa area.
Use figure 1 to:
describe the seasonal pattern of tourists in Noosa
explain the seasonal nature of tourism in Noosa.
Figure 1: Noosa’s domestic overnight seasonality 2017
Image: Column graph showing Noosa’s domestic overnight seasonality in 2017. The vertical axis shows the number of visitors from zero to 140,000 in increments of 20,000…
WorksheetGeographyYear 9Byron Shire role cards
Print one copy and cut into individual cards and distribute one card to each group.
Local residents
Tourists for the day
Local business owners
Accommodation providers
Tourists staying overnight
Residents and business owners in…
InformationGeographyYear 9Strategies for sustainable tourism
PMI chart
Strategy
Positive impacts of the strategy
Negative impacts on the strategy
Interesting points of the strategy (this might include areas for improvement of the negative impacts)
Linked activities:…
WorksheetGeographyYear 9